C road crash in Leicester LE3 on 18 July 2015 at 18:50 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper hit a pedestrian on a C road in Leicester at 18:50 on Saturday 18 July 2015. A 3-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jul 2015
- Saturday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.62496, longitude -1.16257, in the LE3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leicester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Braunstone Park & Rowley Fields, Leicester, LE3 1BT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leicester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015331501088
- Council area
- Leicester
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 1983.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A5125 in Leicester, 2 December 1983
10 m awayRef 19833383S1082
Slight
Car crash on the A5125 in Leicester, 7 February 1985
10 m awayRef 19853385S0087
Serious
Freight Rover Sherpa crash on the A5125 in Leicester, 30 November 1998
10 m awayRef 1998339809418
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5125 in Leicester, 6 October 1998
11 m awayRef 1998339807542
Slight
Honda crash on the A5125 in Leicester, 7 October 1993
11 m awayRef 1993339307038
Serious
Car crash on the A5125 in Leicester, 20 November 1988
11 m awayRef 19883388B0354
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing in zig-zag exit lines
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2015331501088 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Leicester road accident statistics for 2015.